I used to use Nuzzel and I liked it a lot, although I stopped using it for some reasons I don't remember.
For me, the whole point of the service was to get interesting links without exposing myself to the hostility the social media tends to have. In other words, I could use Twitter without engaging with it.
I don't expect the less-engaging nature of the service lasts after the acquisition. If they create a paid link aggregation service however, that can be something loved from people who stay away from the timelines. I'll maintain a lukewarm hope there.
Yup - this is what I liked about Nuzzel, especially as political rhetoric in particular continues to get overheated on Twitter. Ultimately I found ignoring Twitter to be even better. I surface more interesting stuff on sites like this one than Twitter. It wasn’t always like that, but Twitter has been moving from being focused on a way to discover ideas to an outrage generating machine in the soulless chase for engagement at all costs for some time now. It’s rather disgusting so I no longer help feed the beast and perpetuate the problem. And I have a lot less stress in my life as well - win win!
I met the founder of Nuzzel Jonathan Abrams at an event in SF at their peak hype years ago and remember him being extremely arrogant and dismissive. Although I am not sure if that is at all correlated with this unfortunate outcome.
I follow a bunch of journalists that linked to stories they liked, then used nuzzle as a news aggregator, 9+ likes might be worth a read, 20+ likes something big going on etc.
Fannying around with Twitters advanced filters to replicate this feels like trying to get the much promised Flash level of interactivity out of HTML5.
I am sad Nuzzel is being shitcanned. Somthing good has been lost.
You should be able to use some twitter scraping library to scrape tweets of your followees. Add some RSS feeds, and then sort the links based on repetition count, and email yourself the top 10 each week.
I'm a bit user of Nuzzel and this isn't entirely unexpected, but I'm disappointed. Nuzzel allowed me to catch up on links from my Twitter stream without me getting caught up in infinite scrolling and distracting conversations. It didn't replace Twitter, but let me use it in a different way.
Nuzzel replaced a similar -- but much better -- tool that I can no longer remember, after it shut down as well. At this points I'll probably have to create yet another side-project to do what Nuzzel was doing for me.
Idea behind Nuzzle had incredible potential. Sift through all the noise of Twitter in one click?
And incredibly, one of the potentially most useful features of Twitter, that they received on the plate through acquistion, and completely failed to incorporate into the product, is getting shut down. Decisions like these are definetely either way above or way below my pay grade.
My condolences to those acolytes, who will likely be sidelined and ignored in favor of features that are better for twitter's bottom line, instead of the users.
I know someone working on a sustainable alternative in this space. Still in the trying-to-figure-out-the-market-size phase, so any input is appreciated: https://tally.so/r/w54RP3
